Stony Brook (2-1, 0-0 CAA Football) vs. Fordham (1-2, 0-0 Patriot League)
LOCATION	Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium (12,300) | Stony Brook, N.Y.
DATE  | TIME	Saturday, Sept. 21 | 6 p.m.
TICKETS	Season | Single Game
COACHES	Stony Brook: Chuck Priore (UAlbany '82) 125-76   Fordham: Joe Conlin (Pittsburgh '01) 3-11
RANKINGS	Stony Brook: RV AFCA Coaches/RV STATS FCS | Fordham: -- AFCA Coaches/-- STATS FCS
TV	FloSports (Jonny Wincott, P-x-P; Erik Coleman Analyst; Ariel Epstein, Sideline)
GAME NOTES	Stony Brook | Fordham | CAA Football
COVERAGE	Live Stats | FloSports Stream
SOCIAL	@StonyBrookFB | #SeawolvesUnited | #HOWL
FOR THE FANS	2019 Fan Experience
UP NEXT	at Rhode Island, Sept. 28 | 7 p.m. | Meade Stadium, Kingston, R.I.  vs. James Madison, Oct. 5 | 6 p.m. | Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium | Tickets

STONY BROOK, N.Y. – Having high school teammates playing together on a college isn't all that rare, but having three from the same school all starting together on the Stony Brook football team has been something special for Archbishop Stepinac graduates and Yonkers, N.Y., natives QB Tyquell Fields, DB Gavin Heslop and DB TJ Morrison.
 
Fields, a redshirt junior, has started the first three games of the 2019 season for the Seawolves, while both Heslop, a redshirt senior captain, and Morrison, a redshirt junior, have started each of the last 15 games together on opposites sides of the field as cornerbacks.
 
The three will once again be on the field come Saturday when Stony Brook hosts Fordham in the final non-conference game of the regular season. Kickoff in Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium is slated for 6 p.m. (GET YOUR TICKETS NOW).
 
For this 2019 season the trio has been reunited as starters on the field for the first time since the 2014 season when all three started together for the Crusaders on their way to the CHSFL AAA Championship.
 
"I was a grade above them, but we all got to Stepinac at the same time because I went to a different school for a year," Heslop said.
 
But it wasn't right away when the three played together.
 
"When we got to high school, I started off on the freshman team," Fields said. "TJ was on JV and Gavin was on varsity. Then TJ went to varsity and I went to JV."
 
It was the next season, in 2013, when the three were reunited on the same team.
 
The friendship among Fields, Heslop and Morrison goes far beyond high school. The three became friends at the age of 10 when they were teammates on the Yonkers Gladiators pop warner team.
 
"When I first came to the team I didn't know them (Gavin and TJ) that well," Fields said. "I started to get to know them toward the end of the season. It was funny because at first I started off playing guard and middle linebacker."
 
"It was great," Heslop recalls about having Morrison and Fields as teammates in pop warner. "We were not as close as me and (TJ), but (Tyquell) was playing guard. (Tyquell) was tough though. He wasn't a slack in his first year playing."
 
Being together on the Gladiators lasted just two years, but the trio didn't stray far from each other.
 
"We all went to middle school together so we saw each other everyday," Morrison said. "But, we kept playing pop warner until high school. We never played middle school football at Yonkers."
 
Fast forward through high school to when the three became teammates again when Morrison followed longtime friend Heslop to Long Island.
 
"It was probably more for me because we had been playing together for so long, but he didn't force or coerce me," Morrison said of the influence of Heslop. "He treated me like we always treated each other and was 100 percent honest with me. He told me anything I needed to know. He told me that he wanted me to come here, but he understood that it was my decision. So he didn't put pressure on me, but we both knew."
 
Fields came in the same year with Morrison in the fall of 2016.
 
"I would say that TJ probably has a bigger influence on me coming here than Gavin did," Fields said. "Just because we were together in high school after (Gavin) graduated and we had a close relationship, but I picked the school because of the academics, it was close to home and I felt that I had a better shot to play than any other school."
 
The camaraderie between the three spans through the years though and it shows on the sideline when a big play happens.
 
"It is funny when we are on the sideline and he (Tyquell) is making crazy throws we just sit there and smile and dap each other up, but everybody else around us is going crazy and we just sit there because he's just Quellz," Morrison said.
 
"He (Tyquell) is in a class of his own. His nickname is Quellz, but I call him the magician because he makes the magic happen," Heslop added.
 
Fields feels the same way when Heslop and Morrison shine on the field.
 
"It definitely feels good when I see them make big plays being that I grew up with them and we came all this way," Fields said. "That definitely gives me that extra burst of energy and confidence."
 
THE SERIES
This will be the fourth meeting between the two schools. Stony Brook owns a 2-1 series advantage after breaking the series tie with last season's 28-6 victory in the Bronx. This is the second of a six-year deal for the two programs to play each season. This year and in 2021 and 2023 the game will be play at LaValle Stadium in Stony Brook.   

CLOSING OUT THE NON-CONFERENCE SLATE
Saturday's game vs. Fordham is Stony Brook's final non-conference game of the 2019 regular season. The Seawolves earned home victories over Bryant and Wagner and fell at FBS foe Utah State in the other three non-CAA Football games of the season.  

QUICK HITTERS
• Head coach Chuck Priore picked up career win No. 125 on Sept. 14.
• Stony Brook's captains for the 2019 season are senior DB Gavin Heslop, senior DL Sam Kamara and senior RB Isaiah White.
• Graduate transfer WR Jean Constant was named preseason STATS FCS All-American.
• Stony Brook finished the 2018 season ranked 18th in the AFCA Coaches poll and 16th in the STATS poll.

RIDING 11
After Saturday's victory over Wagner, Stony Brook has now won 11 straight games in Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium.

WHITE THRIVING BACK ON OFFENSE
Senior captain Isaiah White is back on the offensive side of the ball for 2019 after he spent the three years on defense. White carried the ball 62 times for 243 yards as a running back during his true freshman season in 2015. Thru three games in 2019, White has 224 yards and four touchdowns on 55 carries. He also picked up his second career 100-yard rushing game last week against Wagner with a career-high 131 yards.

LET'S GO STREAKING...
OL Mason Zimmerman has started 33 straight games...DL Sam Kamara and DB Gavin Heslop have each started 27 straight games...DB Augie Contressa, DB Synceir Malone and DB TJ Morrison has all started 14 straight games...Stony Brook won 11 straight games in LaValle Stadium.
 
ON DECK
Stony Brook will hit the road to open CAA Football play when they visit Meade Stadium on Sept. 28 to take on Rhode Island at 7 p.m. The Seawolves return home for Homecoming on Oct. 5 and welcome No. 2 James Madison to LaValle Stadium. Kickoff is slated for 6 p.m. (GET YOUR TICKETS NOW).